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Congratulations to Yuan Ren for the publication of Lao-Zi-An Interpretation and Commentary (with Ken Leyton-Brown), Shangwu Publishing House, PRC, 2009
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SUMMER COURSE IN JAPAN, 2010
RLST is pleased to announce that we will be offering a course: Summer 2010 in Kyota and Nara, Japan. This class is open to all students at the University of Regina who have completed 30 credit hours of courses in any field.
For further information on this course (RLST 390BC, The Religious Lanscapes of Kyoto and Nara) click here. Or contact Kevin.bond@uregina.ca
NEW COURSE IN FALL 2010 (poster)
ATHEISM (RLST 290AI)
1:00-2:15 TR (Professor: William Arnal)
Ths class will cover atheism from antiquity to the present, with attention to both the arguments made against God/the gods, and to the social circumstances and effects of atheistic movements, arguments, and public discrourses. While the focus will be prdominantly on the West, some non-Western materials will be considered. Prerequisite: completion of 15 credit hours.
COURSE OFFERINGS IN SPRING/SUMMER/FALL 2010 (click here)
**UPCOMING LECTURES**
Sidney Griffith, Living Together in Bagdad: Muslim-Christian Relations in Abbasid and Contemporary Times
THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER IN WASHINGTON DC. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE SOON
Sidney H. Griffith is Ordinary Professor in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures at The Catholic University of America, where he works in Syriac and Christian Arabic. His publications are largely in the area of the history of Christian responses in Syriac and Arabic to the challenge of Islam in the early Islamic period, and the history, culture and theologies of the churches in the Oriental Patriarchates.
(This lecture is sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, the Canada Research Chair inSocial Justice, Luther College, Campion College, Knox Metropolitan United Church, and the Regina Jesuit Community of Campion College)
**RELIGIOUS STUDIES IDEAS SERIES (RSIS)**
Ken McKendrick, University of Manitoba
We have an imaginary Friend in Jesus: What Imaginary Companions Can Teach Us about Religion
Friday, April 9 @ 2:30 in TBA
Kenneth MacKendrick is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion, University of Manitoba. His doctoral thesis on the early writings of Jürgen Habermas was completed at the Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto and is published by Routledge as Discourse,Desire, and Fantasy in Jürgen Habermas' Critical Theory (2008). He has published articles on critical theory and religion, discourse ethics, thanatology, evil in world religions, and the writings of Chuck Palahniuk. MacKendrick's teaching interests include: contemporary Christianity(fundamentalism and charismatic movements, secularization), evil in world religions, method and theory in the study of religion, and rituals of death and
mourning. His current research focuses on the relation between cognition, imagination, and religion. He is also co-editing an anthology with Karen Wilson Baptist on deathscapes, (funerals, festivals, memorials, cemeteries). He is a member of the editorial review board for the series Studies in Critical Research on Religion in association with Brill Academic Publishers and Haymarket Books and editor of the "Theory & Method" section of the journal Religion Compass (Blackwell).
(for previous lectures in this series, click here)
**FACULTY AND STUDENT NEWS**
*Congratulations to Yuan Ren for the publication of Lao-Zi-An Interpretation and Commentary (with Ken Leyton-Brown), Shangwu Publishing House, PRC, 2009
The department welcomes Jesse Bailey and Harrison Hall to its MA program
*Congratulations to Sean Campbell for successfully completing his MA, A Transgressive Reading of Religious Metaphor (supervisor: Bill Arnal)
*Congratulations to Darlene Juschka on the publication of her book, Political Bodies/Body Politic: The Semiotics of Gender. Check it out at Equinox
*Congratulations to Christina Laing for successfully completing her MA, Muslim Identity Crisis: Shari'a as a Mechanism for Decolonizationning (supervisor: Franzvolker Greifenhagen)
*Congratulations to Tyler Wright for successfully comleting his honours paper Examining Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (supervisor: Jacoba Kuikman)
*Congratulations to Kevin Bond, 2009 recipient of the Dean's Research Award
*Congratulations to Chelsey Vargo who has been accepted into the PhD program at the University of Alberta.
*Congratulations to Evan Radford who has been accepted into the MA program at York University.
*Congratulations to Glen Fairen on the publication of As Below, So Above: Apocalypticism, Gnosticism and the Scribes of Qumran and Nag Hammadi, Gorgias Press, 2009. Glen completed an MA in RLST at the University of Regina under the direction of Bill Arnal in 2006.
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**EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES**
For employment opportunities in Religious Studies, see at the University of Regina, see University of Regina, Campion College and Luther College
